Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghent, California


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The result was delete. Geschichte (talk) 08:36, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Ghent, California

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This doesn't look like it passes WP:GEOLAND. Not marked on topos, no GNIS entry, not in Gudde. Topos show a rail siding in the approximate area indicated by the article, with a cluster of buildings eventually appearing that Google maps suggests is a scrapyard. I've figured out how to filter newspapers.com results by county, and searching for Ghent in Modoc County, California newspapers brings up six hits: a scanner area and five references to the European city. Not seeing how this passes WP:GEOLAND or WP:GNG. Hog Farm Bacon 00:03, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 00:03, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Hog Farm Bacon 00:03, 7 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - Fails WP:GEOLAND. I'm beginning to think these articles may have been mass-created simply to build up the edits/article creation count needed to get adminship. It's hard to sanction people for having done this back in 2009, but if someone were doing this now I'd support sending them to ANI for disruptive behaviour and put a block on them editing geography articles. FOARP (talk) 15:13, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. No post office. Confirmed to not be in GNIS and not on topos.  Searching GBooks for 'Ghent "Southern Pacific"' finds  which has 5 hits for Ghent, all of which state that Ghent is now known as Canby.  GBooks has some other hits indicating that Ghent was a station, so WP:STATION applies. As there is no legal recognition, #1 of WP:GEOLAND is not met. As there is only trivial coverage, this locale is does not meet #2 of WP:GEOLAND.  Cxbrx (talk) 17:45, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: per nom, fails GNG and NGEO.  // Timothy ::  talk  04:38, 14 December 2020 (UTC)


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